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This week, Pentagon officials gave the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee an estimate of $11.3 billion for the war’s first week, a figure first reported Wednesday by The New York Times.
↵↵Unmasking Johnny MAGA: A right-wing account with 280,000 followers on X posts dozens of times per day, lavishing praise on Trump and attacking his political enemies.
↵↵Still in Pennsylvania: The New York Times explores the "strained, and often strange, relationship" between the two most powerful Democrats in the commonwealth: Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen.
↵↵Getting big in Texas: The New York Times takes a look at two big developments in the state's high-profile Senate race: the multimillion-dollar effort to help get Sen.
↵↵Trump was interrupted several times by hecklers Tuesday, and he credited law enforcement for quickly removing them from the hall.
↵↵Retrospective on monstrous wildfires↵↵Be prepared for California's largest story from 2025 to carry over into 2026.
↵↵At the Races is back for 2026, with the midterm election year upon us.
↵↵The issue is among the last unresolved matters facing House and Senate negotiators who aim to reconcile before December the House and Senate fiscal 2026 NDAAs.Â
↵↵If Trump has a legislative strategy for the 12-month run to the 2026 midterm elections, he and his team have done a bang-up job camouflaging it.
Senate Republican leaders plan to abandon a House-passed funding patch to reopen government and pivot to a new bill that would provide more time to complete fiscal 2026 appropriations.
Kennedy III by anywhere from a little (between 1 and 6 points) to a lot (14 and 17 points). But about a month before the election, Markey’s standing started to improve.
"President Trump is right to support them and step in to provide a bridge to the enhanced farm safety net policies in HR 1, which will kick in next year," he said referring to the bill that became the
Steil said the pilot program enhancement, plus the opportunity for more funding in the upcoming conference negotiations on the fiscal 2026Â Legislative Branch appropriations bill, should be enough to resolve
Declining fortunes The rush of younger Democrats willing to take on party elders this early in the 2026 election cycle is rooted in last year’s steep losses following octogenarian President Joe Biden’s
But police spending on overtime has at times raised eyebrows amid larger questions about the department’s budget, which has climbed significantly since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
At other times he leaned on top lieutenants such as Vice President Mike Pence and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.Â
And if they did it, it would cost them 100 times more." What’s more, Trump was joined by two potential presidential hopefuls from his own party: term-limited Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Rep.
While Republicans warn of lean times ahead, many on Capitol Hill are hoping Congress will choose to pony up more money for itself.
The House passed HR 1, dubbed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," on May 22 after an all-night session. The vote was 215-214, with two Republicans voting against it.
Kennedy, testifying before the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee, sometimes deflected and other times fought back as he outlined his vision for reducing and preventing chronic disease